For the Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(A BBC television film)
Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
A weekly series of exercises to music.
From the BBC's Midland television studio
A supplement with instructions and diagrams for these exercises was published on November 15. Back numbers of Radio Times may be obtained from your newsagent.
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Our Miss Pemberton: 12 - Once a Year
Written by Sheila Hodgson.
A story of life today in a small town.
(Kim Grant is appearing in 'The Boy Friend' at Wyndhams Theatre, London)
(to 15.15)
The fairy tale based on the story by The Brothers Grimm by Clifford Williams and Donald Jonson.
Incidental music played by the Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz)
Conducted by the composer
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on December 26, 1956)
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News for Wales: 6.15-6.20
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sports-Music-People
Cinema-Theatre-Travel
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Rory McEwen
with Percy Thrower and his gardening friends.
He shows some vegetables which the garden or allotment should provide at this season, and gives advice on how to took after flowers and plants which you may receive as Christmas presents.
Today he has two guests:
Muriel Tipton who helps with Christmas decorations and Francis Hanger Curator of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Wisley, who shows how useful plastics can be to the gardener.
Produced by John Farrington in the BBC's Midland television studio
(A BBC telerecording)
Hylda Baker invites you to Be Soon
and to meet her friends and neighbours including Guy Middleton, Glenn Melvyn, Jack Howarth, Pamela Manson, Michael Robbins, Tony Melody and Cynthia.
From the BBC's North of England television studios
by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television by Vincent Tilsley
In which the world of Ralph Nickleby collapses about his ears; and in which there is happiness in store not only for the young people, but for a couple of not-so-young people as well.
by Colin Morris
This dramatised documentary shows the struggle of a Chairman to keep possession of an old-established firm in the face of a powerful financial bid to wrest control from him and his Board of Management. The takeover bid brings conflict to the Boardroom and changes on the floor.
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A portrait of a vanished age, described to Peter West by contemporaries.
George F. Kennan, Professor of History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. discusses points emerging out of his recent series of Reith Lectures with Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor and Donald Tyerman.
Programme introduced by Robert McKenzie.
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[Starring] Kay Cavendish
